Cant send a new suspected spyware report.

[Hugh]

I tried it fails.

It suggests I "check" my "proxy settings".

I am a techie, but still, what exactly does it want me to
check and what does it want me to check for?

The wording here is very amateursih, OK its a beta, but
still this dialog should have more rather than less tech
info.

Also what about providing a e-mail feedback option?

I mean surely its worth using an email protocol as a
fallback if the normal spyware protocol (whatever it is
that you use) ?

How many usesrs are there out there that have found new
spyware code but have been unable to forward it to MS?

Sounds like something to get working on to me!

H

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I don't know what proportion of machines this works on.

Microsoft has stated that roughly half the downloads have chosen to enable
Spynet reporting, but that's a number of things--and separate from the
ability to send a suspected spyware report.

I have about 3 dozen machines that I look at in several small offices, and
in one of those offices, at least two machines, otherwise near-identical to
working ones, cannot send this report.

If you play with the IE proxy settings, you can change the behavior, but I
doubt that you can fix it--unless you actually are behind a proxy, in which
case sometimes setting for "detect my settings" actually does fix something.

The idea is that the app uses the IE proxy settings to determing what's
happening--and it does--but apparently imperfectly.